Whats so great about Deming? (Las Cruces, Santa Fe: tornadoes, budget, motel)

[LRUA]

What's not to like ? .....growing population (approx 15,000) ...on I-10 ...32 miles from Mexican border and town of Palomas...with cheap medical/dental and good restaurant (The Pink House) ....Rock Hound State Park ....Florida Mtns ....not too expensive decent housing (country club estates) ..RV parks (81 Palms ..etc ) ....clean air ...good drinking water ....Duck racing ....close to EP and LC ....great weather ....ok ...maybe alittle hot and windy sometimes ...but pretty good ....here's NOAA weather stats ........

JAN 59 27
FEB 64 30
MAR 71 35
APR 78 41
MAY 87 49
JUN 94 58
JUL 95 63
AUG 92 62
SEP 88 55
OCT 79 44
NOV 66 32
DEC 59 27

Summer temps can be over 100 for a number of days each summer ...especially before monsoons kick in ...as well as a few days in winter when it struggles to go above freezing ...plenty of sunshine ...300+ partly cloudy to sunny days a year ...and low rainfall 10" or less and low snowfall less than 5" usually

[designer]

I think it takes a lot more that good stats to make a nice town. I have been in Deming when the wind was blowing so hard it about ripped my car door off
when gassing up. Also it is flat and boring to me especially when we are in a
mountainous state. I would imagine somebody put up a gas station 70 years
ago and later it was called Deming. I talked to somebody yesterday that had lived there and they said the hospital was terrible. The walmart was nice and the Kmart was OK but other than the nice wineries there really wasn't much going on there. I think when I drive through a town or city my first impressions are important. They be wrong but that's my first perception of
that area. I'm not saying the Deming is any worse than any of the other small
towns in NM but I hear so many people on this forum talking about moving there and I wonder why? What am I missing. I know all about the dentist
offices in Palomas, Mexico and they are pretty good but if the drug wars escalate down there that will come to a halt for americans. I know there is no comparing Phoenix to Deming or T or C but Las Cruces to me is a minature
Phoenix with all the new chain store buildings. To me I like the shopping in LC
but it gets a zero on Character. It doesn't even have any downtown skyline.
anyway LC is another town and for another thread.

[military spouse]

Deming is the only place where I've actually feared getting mugged at a McDonalds.

[elpasojeff]

Deming has the best people and the finest restaurant in Southern New Mexico bar none. You have to dine at the Adobe Deli and ask for Francisco to be your waiter. It is in an old school house. The food and service is in a word superb.
The Onion soup is the best. It also is the only bar I have ever been to with parking meters at the bar


Where else in the United States can you attend the Duck Races and Outhouse races? At the Deming Duck parade probably half the town is in the parade...
the other half is there watching. The Deming Museum is worth a stop' and you can travel a half hour south to Columbus New Mexico to the railroad museum
and several miles further to the Pink Store in Columbus New Mexico

[designer]

Sorry harry o for not responding to your post about me living in phoenix
and why would I move to T or C. When I lived in Phoenix I was still working
in the corporate world and making a pretty good income. When I later moved
to T or C I was helping my mother buy and fix up a little house for her to live
in. By then I was retired and looking for better places to live other then Phoenix. While fixing up the house for my mom she decided she didn't care
for T or C because of terrible shopping and she decided to move to Santa Fe.
Since I already had a lot of money and time involved fixing up the house here
in T or C I decided to buy it from her and continue my looking for the right town to live in. Now that the house has reached a point of completion I am
spending a lot of time this summer checking out all these towns here in NM.
I am planning a trip to Ruidoso this coming weekend. I have been there before but just for one day and I want to spend a lot of time there before
even considering it. I like to be cooler than what most of southern NM has
to offer. It's just to hot for me in LC and it is growing to fast. I like the mountains with trees so Ruiodoso might be the right place for me or someplace close to that area. T or C is just now getting a new walmart which I think will help the area but most towns have had one for a long time.
I guess it's pretty bad when the most exciting thing happening in your town
is a new walmart being built. Time for a move for sure

[Stewart47y]

My name is Stewart. I moved here 4 years ago from Tokyo! It was a bit of reverse culture shock for me when I first arrived. It didn't take long for me to fall in love with this place. I see a post from a young man who couldn't wait to move away from here when his High School years were finished. He was quite young, tough and unfair to Deming. I just love it here. In the midwest you have rain but you also have bugs and humidity. In the north you have snow and when it melts you have mud. Here you have great weather, friendly neighbors, low taxes and you can still buy 2 acres of land near our beautiful mountains for about $7,000. A great place for seniors as well as couples my age 47. The well water is ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. We used to export it. More than 30 restaurants and approx 57 other businesses Including a 24 hour WalMart Super Center, K-Mart, Denny's, Ranchers Grill, Peppers Supermarket, 8 Real Estate Companies, 9 Gas Stations, 23 RV Parks, 5 Convience Stores, 2 Pawn Shops, 5 Banks, 3 Dollar Stores an RV Supply Store (mine) 5 Well Drilling Companies, 6 Clothing Stores, Radio Shack, and many others. Come to Deming where you can enjoy all of this with peace and quiet. Try getting all of this anywhere else. If you find it then you should consider moving there. We do not want people who hate being here. I personally have not met that person yet. Please do not put down Deming unless you live here now. Me and all of my customers just love it here and this is where I will stay. This was the best decision I have ever made. If you would like more information on Deming I will gladly help you. Thank you...
Sincerely,
Stewart Embrey

[atlantis7]

I bought 11 acres in Deming in 1987 for 11,000. It is now 2008 and I am having to beg to sell it.

What you have is heat (desert cool at night) wind, sun, dust, dirt - a great hot pepper festival, interstate access, 10 miles from miles-more of nothing in Mexico, and a view of the Florida Mountains. Deming grow? Well, of course it will.

Now there is the bare truth. Many people will see all that as a PRO. Many will see it as all CON. Depends on where you are from, where you want to go and why you want to go there.

I have lived all over but these days, I wouldn't go anywhere where water was scarce, and I would chose an elevation at least 1000 feet above sea level.

I also wouldn't go where the herds are going or some magazine says is paradise. Paradise FOUND is paradise LOST.

Montana is the latest example. In the 80s you could buy miles of Montana ranch land for 250. an acre.

I went to BOZEMAN last summer. It used to be a nice airport and a bunch of saltbox houses surrounded by wide open spaces, on the way to Big Sky and Yellowstone.

Now it's a bunch of apartments, condos, strip centers and the same God-awful big city cookie cutter commercialism that has destroyed the individuality of every town in America.

If you want to be "in the boonies" and enjoy some quiet for awhile, without sprawl creeping up on you,

DON'T GO NEAR AN INTERSTATE
STAY 1OO-200 MILES FROM ANY SIZABLE CITY OR TOWN
DON'T GO NEAR A UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE
DON'T MOVE CLOSE TO MINING, DRILLING OR EXCAVATION
DON'T GO WHERE THERE IS ANY SIGN OF "PLANNED COMMUNITIES"
IF McDONALDS, STARBUCKS, OR WAL-MART IS THERE, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE.
IF YOU FIND IT IN AN ARTICLE IN SOME MAGAZINE OR SEE IT ON AN AD ON TV, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.

You couldn't get Americans to go to Costa Rica in the 80s. My friends went to get lost there. I bought land there to be with nature and enjoy the quiet.

Drug runners hid out there. Retired military sought a quiet, simple, and inexpensive way of life there. Now, most of them are moving to south America or Panama (the next big CA boom).

AMERICANS (particularly Californians and west coasters) are buyng everything they can get their nasty little hands on in Costa Rica - chopping it and developing it into the same misery they made and are trying to escape in the States.

I got plenty of stories. Ask me about my hideway near the original Maxwell Land Grant in COLORADO and how the gas exploration companies charged into the pristine wilderness with their drilling rigs.

Take a look at RENO. What a great little town and quality of life that place used to be. IT'S NOT CASINOS THAT RUINED IT. It's California developers and idiots who are willing to pay five times the true value of construction.

Miles of small Crackerbox tract homes starting at 500k, luring Californians
to retire and have the same benefits of enjoying the other size of pasture, without paying the taxes.

But with prices so high to lure the cash-healthy Californians, what AVERAGE person can afford to live in their own town now? Property taxes and values are beyond their means because wages don't go up and more jobs don't come.

Sorry folks....but even your dreams are being exploited by hundreds of greedy S.O.B.s today.

If you want my tips on where to start getting lost, feel free to write.

Happy Trails.

[Vinegaroon]

The only thing great about Deming imo is having it in my rear view mirror. To each his own, but I can't live in some isolated, podunk, redneck community.

[BBFARRAR]

Funny stuff.

When I was 18 all I wanted was to get out of the small hick town where I grew up. Now when someone says, "It's small and there's nothing to do," my first thought is, "Great. Peace, quiet and room to stretch."

We all change. I have a place in Deming and my only complaint is that the town is growing out toward me.

[atlantis7]

Originally Posted by bbfarrar

funny stuff.

When i was 18 all i wanted was to get out of the small hick town where i grew up. Now when someone says, "it's small and there's nothing to do," my first thought is, "great. Peace, quiet and room to stretch."

we all change. I have a place in deming and my only complaint is that the town is growing out toward me.

amen and amen brudda